Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-09-03
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at Ke~ kuk while eating = watermelon.
AT Grinnell there Is an effort being made 10
convert the old wire factory into canning
works.
Hursh's Touring mill, at Winterset, war
/, burned Friday noon. Loss $4,000; insur-
ance * 5000.
The Davenport Baptists are kicking again.
having a saloon started opposite their place
Of worship.
Charles Wilsey, OF Keokuk, left his wife
| and newborn babe to elope with o younglady
Of that vicinity.
William Freshour, whe was so b~rutaliy
beaten by Policeman Crowley, at Ottumwa a,
win probably die.
The Cedar Rapids newspapers devote con-
siderable space TO the alleged discovery Of
gold In Linn county.
The parties wBo contracted TO strike coal,
gas or in ~artesisn well at Bayard have quit
after going 275 feet. They came IN contact
with hard rock.
The people Of Manchester new begin TO
think that the Illinois Central is really be-
hind the project TO build n road from Cedar
Rapids to Manchester.
Some lend placed two large stumps on the
track of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul near Harpe,'s Ferry last Friday. Had
the engineer not seen the distractions the
whole train would have been thrown off the
track and down an embankInent into the
river.
A joke has zen perpetrated on w. r. Hud.
son, of Davenport, now a clerk In one Of the
departments at Washington. The president
has received a letter from him asking him
that he recommend him as a candidate to the
Bulgarian throne. Hudson declares the let
ter to be a forgery.
Policeman Crowley, Of Ottumwa, met VIM.
Freshour. a railroad fireman, as he was going
TO hts train Sunday night, and without provo.
cation dubbed Freshour with his billy, knock
ing him senseless and fracturlng his skull.
Crowley was drunk and Is now I'm jail. Great
indignation prevails.
The subject OF establishing a state histori.
cal society at the capitol, with rooms for the
collection Of state apd other historical relies,
will be brought to the attention of the legis-
lsturo this winter, although there IS one OF a
semi-private nature in connection with the
State university at low City.
G.. A. Michael, who went to Kansas CITY
from Wayne cou ,ty, under date of August Is,
thus writes: "Wul have to go to Iowa again.
l think l shall go to TO the northwest part of
the state. Everybody is suffering from the
protraeted drouth. Corntlelds and pastures
are all burned up, and the people are hauling
water for miles"
A Clinton lawyer, who has a $l5, 600 claim
sgaipst sells Bros circus on account OF the
gounding and fatal accident at Clinton in
the "Will West" exhibition, attempted to
serve papers Friday, at Freeport, Ill, where
the circus wac exhibiting, but ne found that
IL was NOT an incorporated company, SO that
serving on the ticket agent did 40 good.
Neither O. the Sells brothers were to be
found.
The Elkader Register says q short time ago
while a farmer residing near Clermont was
cutting his hay, he drove his team across a
slough when his horses suddenly sanf into
the ground. Help was procured and the
horses pulled out, when 1t was discovered that
g fire was burning underneath Le slough
and that the horses were badly burned, The
meadow hal not been burned over and no signs
OF Gre had been observed, SO tat II remains g
mystery rs TO its origin.
A general fight, according to the Globe, oc-
Cured at Council Bluffs at the close OF the
meeting al the mission Of the Methodist
church IN the west part OF the city, In which
the cong .ega,ion joined. Ana even during
the services there were defiant Disturbances
Tne pastor. the Rev. Mr.. Person, opened the
door TO go home "but concluded that the bat
tie was too hot for him, and so he stepped
back iat5 the bulldog to aaai = cessation OF
hosfiities."
GOV. Larrabee Gss received a letter from
the British consul a. Chicago, saying ne uu-
derstatds the man James ReYaoids, who was
on Sunday last iynched at Leon, was a British
subject, q Scotchman named Robertson. lie
asks the governor what action is being taken
| to bring the l~ynchers 10 justice. A copy CT
| The governors proclamation has been FOR
warded to him, in witch a reward OF $500 Is
| offered Tor the apprehension OF the perpetra-
tors, ana In 1T icS icLttI Ae a1fs
| that Is as high as be can 20, and that he de-
| plores the crime as needless and cruel.
The following Iowa pensions were awarded
| Saturday: Philena, widow II j. NJ. Scatcn'
Shenandoah; Egeiins W., mother of +. s.
Bradley, Rtceville; David Metzier, P~ackwood;
Thomas EaGap, Wankegan; Martin Ackey,
! LYONS; John Melvin, Clinton; David Bush
man, EldorSdo; j. 7. Wood"a ard, Monona;
J. A.. Mccarthy, Leon; o. j. Todd, Todd3-
vile: Eliza Hitzbard, Manly Junction James
RI. Mccoy, AIDia; j. b. Robbins, Goodel;
James Syekler, Brighton; Abraham Kephart,
Springhill, reissue; Robert Vance, Seymour.
Keokuk special, -: Last Sunday night
abost 9 O'Clock Charles B. Foster secured q
room at the Allison house AMI retired. There
was nothing strange in his actions, but he did
not arise this morning. AT the dinner hour
he had not set come Town and an investiPa.
ton was made, which revealed the fact That
he WAS dead. A chicroform bottle Was found
by his bed and a towel was gTasped In his
hand which lad evidently been saturated with
the fluid. Those who know him think 1t was
not suicide but an accident, as he is known to
have used the drug on several occasions. He
leaves g. wife ard six small children. he was
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